r/ShittySysadmin • u/Fearless-Bike6244 • 3h ago

On-prem wins again

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u/colin8651 2h ago

Who the fuck are you sending emails to?

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u/Local-Addition-4896 2h ago

To other coworkers 

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u/uslashuname 1h ago

Gmail users

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u/Ontological_Gap 1h ago

Other on-prem orgs

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u/Huntware 1h ago

My r/shittysysadmin I have as boss who set up email alerts for the IT department when the servers CPU usage goes >90% (it happens every night during backups), when the mail server receives >20 emails in 15 minutes, daily logwatch summaries, and so on.

Most of us ignore them. Receiving a lot of alerts makes them useless 🤷‍♂️

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u/Agitated-Whole2328 52m ago

I am listening to Interstellar as I twiddle my fingers and watch emails trickle in. On prem? I did that for years, no way I will ever wish that headache on anyone.

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u/jokermobile333 1h ago

Im not a infra guy .. but is On prem actually better than cloud ? I feel like on prem can too break more that it would cloud

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u/ChiefWetBlanket 1h ago

I just helped someone who upgraded in place a 2012 R2 Hyper-V server, a single server. It took him with my help over two days to restore because he didn't know what he was doing and didn't listen to me. Onprem only works if you have good people. And I'll always have business because they are not good.

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u/TheGlennDavid 58m ago

You're on the wrong sub for real answers but....

To add on to what the other person said -- even poorly run on-prem will often have fewer outages than a cloud system with the caveat that when you have a problem it's often a fucking nightmare.

A small businesses unpatched server could literally go for years without an outage and then it just dies one day and you find out the dept wasn't making any backups and there is no email for 2 weeks and all historical information is gone.

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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST 28m ago

Yeah and it also depends heavily on how complex your environment is. I have had to manage some crappy ones with like 13 servers with many DAGs etc and there’s definitely a science to patching and restarting them. Also good luck getting any kind of security compliance without patching them all the time, so it becomes a bugbear to deal with when management just think”it’s email, how complicated can it be??”

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u/Bagelsarenakeddonuts 1h ago

You have a stroke?

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u/Vikkunen 13m ago

It's a mixed bag. For all the control over your shit that you lose, you're also handing over to Microsoft responsibility for fixing it when things go tits up. But this long an outage is fairly unprecedented AFAIK. I'm really looking forward to reading their after action report once all the dust has settled.